The First Step in Asceticism
"The first step in asceticism the desert will teach you is purification from haste, agitation, impatience, pressure. In the desert you have to get rid of the 'master of the situation' complex. You find that you are little, insignificant, squeezed in on a waiting bench. No one takes any notice [...]
When People Break Your Heart
When people break your heart, and they surely will ... With what will you fill the bleeding, gaping cracks? Wet cement or fiery, liquid gold? Wet cement will certainly harden well. Leave that heart fortified. Powerful Gold, on the other hand, is a soft, weak metal. Weathers poorly. But oh, [...]
Pointing Out the Stars
You know when you watch chick flicks and they're lying on the car on some overlook pointing out the stars, and one of them starts naming the constellations. Writers put stuff like that into books and movies because it triggers our spirit-soul connection with the source of all creativity. And [...]
Making a Man Feel Better About Himself
It is not a woman's job to make a man feel better about himself. It is not a man's job to make a woman feel better about herself. Value must come from within, and the responsibility to feel better about yourself comes from within too. When someone then treats you with [...]
When Fear Sticks to Your Insides
Sometimes things happen in life that leap into the base of your stomach with a thunk and slowly spend the next few days crawling back up the cliff face of your esophagus without a rope. It doesn’t matter who you talk to or how secretive you become about what’s going [...]
I Just Love
A few months ago, I read a post by a mom who had decided to stop telling her kids how to do anything a better way. Instead, when they ran up to her for her approval after doing something, she chose to say the words, "I just love to watch [...]